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In a short film, that forms part of the BBC2’s flagship Daily Politics show, Tom Crotty, INEOS Director uses locations at the Grangemouth site to highlight the importance of Shale Gas to INEOS and why there is a need to have energy prices in the UK more in line with INEOS' competitors in other parts of the world. Tom says that shale gas is cheaper than other sources of energy and is driving a manufacturing ‘boom’ in the USA. He adds that: “We need UK-produced shale gas and this country has huge reserves of this.”

Our world-scale petrochemical plants make around 1 million tonnes per annum of product, used as the building blocks in the manufacture of household items that society depends upon every day. These include synthetic ethanol, ethylene, propylene and polymers: polyethylene and polypropylene.